Hello everyone
I'm once again having an update problem on one of my many Opnsense firewalls. The firewall is in version 21.7.8, which normally corresponds to a version of Freebsd 12. But the problem is that my system is already running Freebsd 13.
root@pf:~ # opnsense-version
OPNsense 21.7.8 (amd64/OpenSSL)
root@pf:~ # uname -r
13.0-STABLE
If I launch the update via the graphical interface, it simply tells me that everything is up to date and doesn't offer me the option to upgrade to version 22.1.
***GOT REQUEST TO CHECK FOR UPDATES***
Currently running OPNsense 21.7.8 (amd64/OpenSSL) at Thu Feb 12 18:06:00 CET 2026
Fetching changelog information, please wait...
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: . done
Fetching packagesite.txz: .......... done
Processing entries: .......... done
OPNsense repository update completed. 777 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (0 candidates): . done
Processing candidates (0 candidates): . done
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.
So I tried to launch the following utility but I get an error
root@pf:~ # fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opnsense/update/refs/heads/master/src/bootstrap/opnsense-bootstrap.sh.in
opnsense-bootstrap.sh.in 4906 B 34 MBps 00s
chmod 775 opnsense-bootstrap.sh.in
mv opnsense-bootstrap.sh.in opnsense-bootstrap.sh
./opnsense-bootstrap.sh -r 22.1
+ pkg bootstrap
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/unsupported/base, please wait...
pkg: Error fetching https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/unsupported/base/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found
A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pkg'.
I tried modifying the following file /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/OPNsense.conf by replacing the following line :
url: "pkg+https://pkg.opnsense.org/${ABI}/unsupported/base",
with
url: "pkg+https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/22.1/latest",
and if I restart the bootstrap pkg, I get the following message:
root@pf:~ # pkg bootstrap
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/22.1/latest, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.opnsense.org.20210903... done
pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended
Installing pkg-1.17.5_1...
pkg-static: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:13:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64
root@pf:~ # pkg bootstrap -f
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/22.1/latest, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.opnsense.org.20210903... done
pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended
Installing pkg-1.17.5_1...
pkg-static: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:13:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64
Extracting pkg-1.17.5_1: 100%
root@pf:~ # pkg install opnsense
pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended
Updating OPNsense repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 163 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching packagesite.pkg: 100% 221 KiB 226.2kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 0%
pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:13:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:12:amd64
pkg: repository OPNsense contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:13:amd64
Processing entries: 100%
Unable to update repository OPNsense
Error updating repositories!
Thanks for your good ideas.
Best Regards,
Thierry
Hi Thierry,
21.x is so old it's difficult to give proper instructions on recovery with historic tools that likely don't support this or that magic we've added over the years.
This may help... there's still a lot of stuck old binary packages while you are on a newer base system:
# pkg bootstrap -f
Cheers,
Franco